Beautiful peacock at Fountain of Youth
Drinking from the Fountain of Youth - See any difference?
We hated to leave St. Augustine because it's such a great city to visit but the time came and we departed heading north. The last several stops have been uneventful including one marina that was listed on the Active Captain website as "rustic". Mike said if you've ever seen the old movie with Burt Reynolds called "Deliverance", that's what it looked like. We arrived at the Port Royal Marina near Beaufort, S.C. yesterday, June 28th and were anticipating using the loaner car and driving around the area for awhile today but have unexpectedly discovered a water leak that needed attention. Mike has been working on this all day and the ordered part won't be in until Friday so we'll be here for several days. I guess we'll begin our sightseeing tomorrow. We were stationed here in 1970-71 when Mike was in the USMC just home from Vietnam and we hated it then. He was a lowly lst Lt. and we had no money to enjoy the area and were homesick. Also the bugs were awful. We returned about 5 years ago and fell in love with it so we're anxious to get out and explore.
This marina is about 2 miles from the city of Beaufort but we decided to stay here vs. the city marina due to the critiques we read from others who have stayed there.
Beaufort was the city where several movies were filmed, such as "The Great Santini", "Forrest Gump", "The Big Chill" and "The Prince of Tides" where the final scene of the movie was filmed at the bridge right next to this marina.
Stay tuned...more to come.
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